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Men's pole vault
at the European Athletics Championships
1954 European
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The men's pole vault at the 1954 European Athletics Championships was held in Bern, Switzerland, at Stadion Neufeld on 26 and 28 August 1954.

Medalists

Gold Eeles Landström
 Finland
Silver Ragnar Lundberg
 Sweden
Bronze Geoffrey Elliott
 Great Britain
Bronze Jukka Piironen
 Finland

Results

Final

28 August

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Eeles Landström  Finland 4.40 CR NR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ragnar Lundberg  Sweden 4.40 CR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Geoffrey Elliott  Great Britain 4.30 NR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jukka Piironen  Finland 4.30
5 Tamás Homonnay  Hungary 4.30
6 Georgios Roubanis  Greece 4.25
7 Victor Sillon  France 4.25
8 Vitaliy Chernobay  Soviet Union 4.25
9 Edward Adamczyk  Poland 4.25
10 Lennart Lindberg  Finland 4.20
11 Zenon Ważny  Poland 4.15
12 Edmondo Ballotta  Italy 4.10
13 Viktor Knyazev  Soviet Union 4.10
13 Jiří Krejcar  Czechoslovakia 4.10
15 Richard Larsen  Denmark 4.10
16 Julius Schneider  West Germany 4.10
17 Dimitar Khlebarov  Bulgaria 4.10 NR
18 Walter Hofstetter   Switzerland 4.10
19 Milan Milakov  Yugoslavia 4.00
Torfi Bryngeirsson  Iceland DNS

Qualification

26 August

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
Tamás Homonnay  Hungary 4.05 Q
Zenon Ważny  Poland 4.05 Q
Julius Schneider  West Germany 4.05 Q
Edward Adamczyk  Poland 4.05 Q
Victor Sillon  France 4.05 Q
Richard Larsen  Denmark 4.05 Q
Ragnar Lundberg  Sweden 4.05 Q
Walter Hofstetter   Switzerland 4.05 Q
Jiří Krejcar  Czechoslovakia 4.05 Q
Milan Milakov  Yugoslavia 4.05 Q
Edmondo Ballotta  Italy 4.05 Q
Eeles Landström  Finland 4.05 Q
Geoffrey Elliott  Great Britain 4.05 Q
Lennart Lindberg  Finland 4.05 Q
Vitaliy Chernobay  Soviet Union 4.05 Q
Jukka Piironen  Finland 4.05 Q
Dimitar Khlebarov  Bulgaria 4.05 Q
Viktor Knyazev  Soviet Union 4.05 Q
Georgios Roubanis  Greece 4.05 Q
Torfi Bryngeirsson  Iceland 4.05 Q
Zeno Dragomir  Romania 3.95
Giulio Chiesa  Italy 3.80
Jacques Pirlot  Belgium 3.80
Fredy Bossert   Switzerland 3.80

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.

References

  1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 377–384, retrieved 13 August 2014
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